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When people think of gun violence, they typically think of a masked robber or a disturbed young man with an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. In truth, the most common victim of fatal gun violence is a distraught man who, alone in a room, puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Far more people use guns to commit suicide than to kill someone else in Florida, according to state Department of Health records. The same is true nationally and in Central Florida. In 2011, the most recent year for which state numbers are available, there were 1,474 firearm suicides in Florida compared with 827 firearm homicides. In Central Florida, the numbers were 309 vs. 154. ...

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